Plantation in the musical "Mame"

• Bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Peckerwood or Wood is a racial slur used to refer to White Americans. Peckerwood may also refer to: Peckerwood Cemetery, the prisoners' cemetery at the United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth Peckerwood Hill, a nickname for Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery in ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1859, U.S. Southern black dialectal inversion of woodpecker ; in folklore, taken as the type of white folks (1929) and symbolically contrasted with blackbird .

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context Southern US slang English) A woodpecker.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. bird with strong claws and a stiff tail adapted for climbing and a hard chisel-like bill for boring into wood for insects [syn: woodpecker , pecker ]